What Happens When Your Creatinine Level Is Too High

Creatinine level is an important standard to assess patient’s kidney condition, and high creatinine often indicates patient has severe kidney damage. While, what if patient’s creatinine level is too high?

Why does high creatinine often indicate severe kidney damage?

Creatinine is a breakdown product of muscle, and it should be filtrated out from our blood by kidney. So, when patient has high creatinine, it may mean patient’s kidney function has been damaged by his kidney disease.

While our kidneys have strong metabolic ability and compensation, and half normal kidney function will be able to guarantee our body health. So, if patient finds his creatinine level is high, and if that is caused by patient’s kidney damage, that will indicate more than half kidney function has been damaged.

What happens when renal patient’s creatinine level is too high?

High creatinine level means patient already has high creatinine, so if patient’s creatinine level is too high, what will happen?

In fact, even through patient’s damaged kidney function has reached half, his creatinine level will not become too high. And if patient has obvious high creatine level, that will indicate patient’s damaged kidney function has reached more than two thirds.

What’s more, when patient’s kidney disease has progressed into the end stage, patient’s kidney function will be damaged severely, and lots of metabolic wastes and toxins will accumulate in patient’s body. Patient will need dialysis or kidney transplant to prolong his lifetime. While for most patients, when their creatinine level reach 5, their doctor may recommend them to have dialysis, which means his kidney function has been damaged so severe that it is already a big threat to his life. Besides, many health problems may appear in patient’s body at this point, which can cause many obvious symptoms.

These above are the information about what may happen when patient has too high creatinine. In the end, if you have any problem in dealing kidney disease, you can just leave us a message, and we can provide the help you need.

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